汝兄
Japanese
edit| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 汝 | 兄 |
| な Jinmeiyō |
せ Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi | |
Etymology
editOld Japanese. 汝 (na, variably first- or second-person pronoun: "I" or "you"; here used to mean "I, my") + 兄 (se, “a female's brother”).[1][2][3]
First attested in 712.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit- [from 712] (archaic, women's speech) an intimate form of address for a male by a female: "my brother"[4]
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “汝兄”, in 日本国語大辞典[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ “汝兄”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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